Joint Strike Fighter engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney and its major suppliers are coming to terms with how to keep lowering the cost of the F135 engine even as the Defense Department significantly slows its procurement of the JSF aircraft, according to two company executives. DOD announced ...
(“Ike”) Dethman and Captain Richard M. Matteis, completed the type’s first combat mission when it attacked a munitions dump on Tiger Island (Cồn Cỏ), off the coast of North Vietnam. The precision strike mission was flown at night with heavily overcast skies. The fighter bomber...
EAST HARTFORD, Conn., March 6 -- Pratt & Whitney has awarded a contract to Nederlands Centrum voor Laser Research (NCLR) to demonstrate an advanced excimer laser drilling system on the F135 propulsion system for the F-35 joint strike fighter (JSF). NCLR has designed an excimer laser ...
The Pratt & Whitney F135 is an afterburning turbofan developed for the F-35 Lightning II single-engine strike fighter. The F135 family has several distinct variants, including a conventional, forward thrust variant and a multi-cycle STOVL variant that includes a forward lift fan. The first ...
Marine Corps' first Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL). According to Pratt & Whitney vice president for F135 engine programs William Gostic, the flight test will take place either in the late summer of 2008 or the end of the year. Pratt & Whitney ...
Engine This Week]]>Pratt & Whitney this week will deliver the first production F135 engine for the Marine Corps' short take-off, vertical-landing variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, according to a company official. "This week we will deliver the first STOVL engine," Bennett Croswell...
Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), is a world leader in the environmentally conscious design, manufacture and service of commercial and military aircraft engines, industrial gas turbines, and space propulsion systems. Pratt & Whitney reported an operating profit of ...
The flight crew declared an emergency and then entered a holding pattern to dump fuel before diverting to Liege Airport in Belgium, making a safe landing an hour after its departure from Maastricht. The engine which failed over the Netherlands wasalsoa Pratt & Whitney, the PW4056, however the...
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The forwardly canted bulkhead42also provides improved birdstrike survivability. The short inlet lip outer surface design together with the forwardly canted bulkhead42contributes to reduce the volume to be heated for the purposes of de-icing the inlet lip28. The volume of the anti-icing cavity44...